Dave Franklin
Musician, scribbler, historian, gnostic, seeker of enlightenment, asker of the wrong questions, delver into the lost archives, fugitive from the law of averages, blogger, quantum spanner, left footed traveller, music journalist, zenarchist, freelance writer, reviewer and gemini. People have woken up to worse.
A Deep Dive Into the Gothic Music Scene
There has been a real resurgence of late musicians taking the dark designs that the original gothic music scene was built on. They continue...
Night Out – Bob McGilpin & Annemarie Picerno (reviewed by Dave...
As I Thank God For This Moment so elegantly and eloquently proved, Annemarie Picerno is an expert at working with established music traditions and...
If Only – Walker Brigade (reviewed by Peter Cousins)
They’re from LA. You can hear LA on this album. It screams it. In the peculiar way bands from around here might not all...
Scoundrels, Dreamers and Second Sons – The Remittance Men (reviewed by...
When most people make a connection between driving and music, that connection is driven (see what I did there?) largely by the clichéd marketing...
Fentanyl Flowers – LiiN (reviewed by Dave Franklin)
Whereas with most musical styles it is enough to stay relevant and move with the times, electronic dance music always needs to sound like...
Bongo Boy Rock n Roll TV Show Series Season 11 Episode...
Just when you have finally checked out, absorbed, explored, considered and generally squeezed every essence of goodness out of the musical suggestions presented to...
St. Paul’s Boulevard – Michael McDermott (reviewed by Peter Cousins)
“Music makes a deep connection when it strikes that delicate nerve separating the personal from the universal. If the listener can use the songs...
Trial – Mr Johnny Ba$h (reviewed by Dave Franklin)
Imagine if instead of being part of the post-war country music boom, Johnny Cash instead began making music in an age of samples and...
Volume I – Supplemental Pills (reviewed by Tim Thomas)
Supplemental Pills succeed with this fantastic debut release. At times primal and raw, Supplemental Pills crest on a wave of drone, and fuzz, songs...
Beauty In Chaos release Afterlife featuring Tish Ciravolo from their latest...
LA-based collective Beauty In Chaos presents their new single 'Afterlife', an atmospheric track featuring Tish Ciravolo, who also appeared on the 'Lookup' single from the group’s debut...
Joyful Noise – Vinnie Jinn (reviewed by Dave Franklin)
There was a time when certain quarters of the music industry looked down on emerging digital technologies and the styles that they drove, dance,...
Aula – Kaapstaad (reviewed by Dave Franklin)
I may be wrong (I frequently am) but I would suspect that Tim Spelman makes music under the name Kaapstaad for very different reasons...
Austin duo, Panjoma, release Bleeding Sun from new EP Sun and...
Austin-based music mavericks Panjoma present their new single' Bleeding Sun', a blissed-out glitchy slice of electronic goodness from their latest 'Sun and Moon' EP. Marking the...
Jobbernowl – Spygenius (reviewed by Peter Cousins)
This is an absolutely wonderful party album. Put it on when it’s time to jump up and down a lot and break the light...
Ava Vox releases new single, Silent Tear, from debut album, Immortalised
Dublin alt-rock / postpunk artist Ava Vox presents the single 'Silent Tear', the latest dark rich offering from debut album 'Immortalised', an 8-track collection that is dark...
That Was The Musical Week That Was – 050622
A busy week, tours starting, new writers on board, and even more cool music than ever to digest, explore and scribble about. As always,...
Pass The Aux – EDMs Hero (reviewed by Dave Franklin)
Pass The Aux is about one thing and one thing only. Major groove! Well, actually it is about a lot of things - riffs...
Symphony of Freaks – Stephen Jacques (reviewed by Dave Franklin)
The thing...actually, one of the many things...that Stephen Jacques does so well is write rock and roll songs that aren't weighed down with pretence...
Lisa Gerrard and long-time collaborator Marcello De Francisci reunite for Exaudi...
Atlantic Curve, a London-based label subsidiary of Schubert Music Europe Group, is excited to announce the signing of world-renowned artist Lisa Gerrard – composer/singer for Dead...
Songs To Sink Yachts To – Blynd Birds (reviewed by Dave...
Any album which opens with a track entitled Mr Abbott's Misogyny Emporium has to be an album worth checking out. The fact that the...
A Short Conversation with Sam Robbins
As always, can we start with some background. Can you tell me a little about how you found music and where it has taken...
Jah Wobble and The Ukrainians release Ukrainian National Anthem in Dub...
Music icon Jah Wobble and legendary British folk-punk outfit The Ukrainians have teamed up to release the 'Ukrainian National Anthem In Dub', a truly unique and inspired...
Slow Dance, Square Dance, Barn Dance – The Lucky Ones (reviewed...
The Lucky Ones are Canadian and this is their second album.
Since releasing their self-titled debut album in 2021, The Lucky Ones has quickly come...
Stars Will Light The Way – Parabola West (reviewed by Dave...
Folk music, like all genres, needs to stay relevant. And whilst some like to guard the demarcations of the musical realm as they see...
My Wife Doesn’t Understand Me – Terry Edwards and the Scapegoats...
This “Proto Jazz-Punk multi-genre splatter” album was originally released on CD in 1995. “My Wife Doesn’t Understand Me” is now available on vinyl for...
Every Seed We Plant – Alice DiMicele (reviewed by Ian O’Regan)
Alice DiMicele (pronounced DeeMissEllie) wastes zero time planting her flag firmly in the blues. The first 3 seconds of this, her 16th album tell...
Come Out of the Dark – London Plane (reviewed by Dave...
Anything that comes citing both XTC and Shriekback as points of reference, as this band does, is always going to make a very loud...
Annihilator – Revolution Above Disorder (reviewed by Dave Franklin)
I suppose the word dreamlike could be used to describe this latest release from Revolution Above Disorder, but only if your dreams are dark...
One Breath – Tash Nidai (reviewed by Dave Franklin)
One of the things I love about the music makers of the modern era is that they are unburdened by the old tribal allegiances,...
Up & Down – Ludwik Konopko (reviewed by Dave Franklin)
I'm not saying that you know what you are going to get when you drop the virtual need onto a new track by Ludwik...
